1. Open Learning and OER in K-12
More discussion, less presentation

2. • What would you like to talk
about tonight?
• What does “open” mean to
you?
• Have you used open
resources?
• If so, what value do you find
in them?
• Have you open licensed your
own content?
• What hopes do you have for
OER?
• What concerns or challenges
do you have?

3. Open means many things….

4. Mobile use Free, legal content for
multimedia projects
Differentiation
Alternative to
textbooks
Teacher and student
flexibility and choice
Teacher innovation
and professionalism
MORE
Collaboration
Sharing
Agency
Voice
Connected learning

5. What are OER?
• OER = open educational resources
• Digital, free, and OPEN for anyone to use,
adapt, and redistribute

6. Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪
No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)
Recommended for education:
CC BY

7. http://content.k12opened.com

8. www.k12opened.com/communit
y

9. How You Can Participate
• Join our OER Community of Practice
k12opened.com/community
• If you publish something you are willing to
share, open license it.
• Join open learning communities like Twitter,
cMOOCs, etc.
• Tell three people you know about open
content and Creative Commons.

10. How You Can Open License
Your Own Work
• Just write “licensed under Creative Commons
CC BY” on the work
• Use the Creative Commons “Choose a License”
tool
– Supplies license artwork
– Optional code you can put on a web site to be
accessed by open search engines

11. Thank you.
Karen Fasimpaur
karen@k12opened.com